Andrew Leaf Email & Phone Number

Anoka, Minnesota

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Recruited by former Director of Web Development for AAN to serve as a full stack.net Web Developer whilemaintaining ColdFusion Developers in converting the ColdFusion LMS products to .net MVC.Designed and refactored the current ColdFusion web site to use .net MVC.Worked closely with business users to gather requirements, created prototypes, complete thorough analysisand design, develop, test and build web apps utilizing proper coding techniques and methodologies. Worked with another developer on refining our repository pattern to separate our models from view models.Introduced the mediator pattern into our core infrastructure.Created a plugin infrastructure to remove some dll dependencies from our task management system.Collaborated with other members of the team on a project basis in order to produce integrated applicationsand campaigns.Worked with peers to develop end-to- end testing and quality assurance procedures and plans.Resolved support and help desk requests as submitted and researched and implemented new technologies.Maintained ColdFusion servers and applications by utilizing Mach II and ColdSpring.​Key Projects/Achievements:Client Side Implementation - Designed shared helpers for both public and internal helpers and implementedangular in several apps. These helpers included JQuery and JQuery plugin implementations.LMS Workflow – Designed, Developed, Implemented a workflow for the LMS system.Shared Layout - Created a way for the CF application could use the same header and footer and design layoutthat was generated by the Ektron Cms.Application Process - Did the discovery work to convert a paper process to an electronic process. Architectedthe base application and worked with a contractor to complete the project.Code Refactoring - Converted many existing CF applications into .net MVC applications.Plugin Architecture - Created a task manager plugin architecture that reduced dll dependency and more userfriendly way to manage task.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Promoted to Senior to serve as the lead programmer for the web application team and was part of multiplere-factoring and building new apps to higher level of coding standards using OO & MVC models i.e.: Mach-II. Designed and refactored the current web site to use frameworks: ColdSpring, Mach II Implemented newsoftware patterns and design to the core code so that two or more subsystems.Key Projects/Achievements:Refactored the main website. The re-factor consisted of taking a procedural site, making it a modular using OOand a core object to load. We used YUI as the grid and a few of components in the forms and JQuery forcomponents.Payment Application – Designed, developed and implemented the payment application in 7 weeks using aMVC model, with minimal pre or post production bugs.ID Cards – Designed Developed a PDF API that would be used by two major apps.Print Cards for Commercial Rating – Using same PDF API for ID Cards, implemented a way for agents to saveand print documents from a PDF file.New Core Insurance product – Designed and developed a core API to load data from two core subsystems.Refactor web site – Implemented MVC and AOP framework into the core website.

Hired originally to work as a contract Desktop Support Analyst. Hired permanently to work as a NetworkTechnician and promoted to a Web Developer to design and develop Web applications.Expertly designed & developed Web applications including workflow process, intranet, & banking applications.Implement Crystal Reports 10 into network environment, including report development and security.Effectively built, maintained, and managed all SSL certificates for Windows 2003/2000/NT 4.0 Web servers.Configured servers with ColdFusion, PHP, Perl, and Tomcat. Provide ongoing administration of My SQL, MSSQL, and BTrieve databases.Key Projects/Achievements:Developed and managed Web-based workflow engine, allowing process creation and addition, to providecost-saving solutions, tracking capability, and authorization approval.Successfully built automated process (using Web-based system above) that converted two-person, eight-hour-per-day process into less than five minutes.Restructured company intranet from static to dynamic-driven pages on ColdFusion platform with ActiveDirectory security framework.Designed project for HR department that reduced 30-hour- per-week manual application process byapproximately 67%.Project managed and developed departmental applications that lowered job-processing time by up to 50%.Installed and supported Compaq desktops for 24 banking centers.Created user ID’s and security access on Novell 2 and 3.Performed troubleshooting of all network and hardware issues.Successfully upgraded all software while supporting 10 banking applications on SQL, BTrieve, and Access.

Did Conversion work for BNSF and SouthLand Corp.

Bachelor Of Science In Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)